Wanted: HP Integral PC

At 07:51 AM 11/28/00 -0800, Peter wrote: This has been discussed here several times before. The HP double sided floppy drives are notorious for this. The grease on the mechanism gets stiff and the drive doesn't open all the way. That causes the top head to catch on the floppy disks. If you insert a disk with the drive like that, I can just about guarantee that you'll catch the top head and tear it loose. If you then try to use a disk in that drive, you'll damage the media on it. ANYTIME you use a double sided HP floppy drive, you should watch for problems with it not opening all the way. If you catch the problem in time, you can remove the drive and clean off the old grease and regrease the drive and it will be fine. I use alcohol or spray tuner cleaner or something like that to clean the old grease off and then apply a good qualtity gun grease that won't get gummy with age. I haven't tried it yet but I think you can rob a DS floppy drive out of an external HP disk drive and use it to replace the one in the IPC. External drives like the HP 9122 or 9123 floppy drives or the HP 7957 or 9153 etc combination hard drive/floppy drives aren't too hard to find in scrap places. Nice web page. I've been intending to put one up for the IPC and some the other HP computers but I haven't had the time. I have 8 IPCs at the moment, they're one of my favorites. Joe